The Photo Injector Test Facility at the DESY

DESY

The DESY is the biggest German research center for particle physics, with sites in Hamburg and Zeuthen....

 location in Zeuthen

Zeuthen

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 (PITZ) was built in order to test and to optimize sources of high brightness electron beams for future free electron lasers (FEL

FEL

FEL may refer to:*Free electron laser*Front end loader*Front End Loading...

s) and linear colliders. The focus at PITZ is on the production of intense electron beams with very small transverse emittance and reasonably small longitudinal emittance which are required in order to meet the high-gain conditions of FEL

FEL

FEL may refer to:*Free electron laser*Front end loader*Front End Loading...

 operation. This challenge is met by applying the most advanced techniques in combination with key parameters of projects based on TESLA technology like FLASH

FLASH

FLASH, acronym of Free Electron LASer in Hamburg, a particle accelerator-based soft x-ray laser located at the DESY accelerator facilities in Hamburg, Germany. It can generate very powerful, ultrashort pulses of coherent radiation in the energy range 10 eV to 200 eV...

 and the XFEL.

PITZ Collaboration

• Berliner Elektronenspeicherring-Gesellschaft für Synchrotronstrahlung (BESSY
  BESSY
  The Berliner Elektronenspeicherring-Gesellschaft für Synchrotronstrahlung m. b. H. , abbreviated BESSY, is a research establishment in the Adlershof district of Berlin. Founded on 5 March 1979, it currently operates Germany's only 3rd generation synchrotron radiation facility, BESSY II...
  
  )
• Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC) Daresbury Laboratory
• Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron in der Helmholtz Gemeinschaft (DESY
  DESY
  The DESY is the biggest German research center for particle physics, with sites in Hamburg and Zeuthen....
  
  )
• Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (FZD)
• Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
• Laboratori Nationali di Frascati (INFN)
• Laboratorio Acceleratori e Superconduttivita Applicata (INFN, LASA
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  ), Milano
• Institute for Nuclear Research (INR
  Institute for Nuclear Research
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  ), Troitsk
• Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy (INRNE), Sofia
• Yerevan Physics Institute (YERPHI)
• Laboratoire de l'accélérateur linéaire (LAL), Orsay
• Max Born Institut (MBI
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  ), Berlin
• Technische Universität Darmstadt (TUD
  TUD
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  ) Institut für Theorie Elektromagnetischer Felder
• Universität Hamburg

External links

PITZ

• PITZ — Official PITZ group website

FELs

• FLASH;
• European X-Ray Free Electron Laser;